Pin-tongue for bar-pins, &amp;c.



A. W. HUTGH INS. PIN TONGUE FOR. BAR PINS, 6:0. APPLICATION FILED 1111.25, 1911.

1,049,368. Patented Jan.7,1913.

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PIN-TONGUE FOR BAR-PINS, &c.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR W. HUTCI-IINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cranston, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin- Tongues for Bar Pins, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to improvements in the construction of pins or pin-tongues of the class adapted to'be used in connection with ornamental bar-pins, veil-pins, brooches and other analogous ornamental articles of jewelry, and it consists in the novel features of construction, all as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In articles of jewelry of the general character just referred to and as usually devised, the same are unprovided with means for positively holding or securing them in position upon the fabric against accidental longitudinal movement or displacement; or, in other words, such an article of jewelry, when attached to the apparel of the wearer by the insertion of the pin-tongue, is quite liable to move endwise out of position with respect to its location on the fabric, unless the space between the pin-joint and catch is practically filled by the fabric itself. It may be added that in certain ornamental articles of jewelry, as for example, comparatively long and narrow bar-pins and veil-pins, this de fect is more apparent and pronounced than in relatively short ones.

The object of the present invention is to overcome the objectionable features or inherent disadvantages in the class of jewelry above named.

To this end, the invention resides in providing the suitably mounted pin-tongue member of the article of jewelry with means adapted, when in use, to cooperate with the pin-stem proper inserted through the fabric so as to positively maintain or hold the ornament in position against accidental endwise movement. The device not only securely clamps the fabric interposed between it and the pin-stem proper, but it further serves as a bridge for supporting and stiffening the latter and also holds it against lateral displacement.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a bar-pin, so-called, provided with my improved pin-tongue, the latter being in the clasped or closed position; the body or bar member proper being in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 25, 1911.

Patented Jan. '7, 1913.

Serial No. 604,551.

longitudinal central section. Fig. 2 is a corresponding sectional view, showing the pintongue released from the pin-catch, or unclasped. In this position it is adapted to be readily inserted in a fabric. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of my improved pintongue, detached from the bar or front. Fig. 4t is a transverse sectional view, in enlarged scale, taken on line t 1 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a similar sectional view, taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a similar view, taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 1. F ig. 7 represents a perspective view of the pin-tongue showing a modified form of bridge; and Fig. 8 represents a side elevation of a barpin provided with my improved pin-tongue,

as attached to a fabric.

The following is a more detailed description.

I would state here that I make no claim to a bar or body member, per se, of the gen eral class referred to, since my improved pln-tongue A is or may be constructed and adapted for use in connection with bars or fronts differing in form, &c., from the bar B or front represented in Figs. 1, 2, 4L, 5, and 6 of the drawing in which the pin tongue is shown as applied to a bar having inwardly turned flanges (LT on its inner face.

The elongated bar or body member B illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 is provided with a catch 6 and ears 6 integral therewith, and may be formed from a suitably shaped blank.

My improved one-piece resilient pintongue A constitutes an article of manufacture and comprises the longitudinally extending main or sharpened pin-stem proper a, the bent head or joint portion ta the arm .member a extending inward from thehead and having the free end portion of the arm a bent at an angle, arranged and adapted, when in use, to form a transversely disposed bridge or support a for confining the fabric lying between it and the adjacent portion of the pin-stem. If desired, the bridge member may have a suitable recess or depression a formed therein. The pin-tongue A is or may be produced from a piece of suitable wire stock possessing a degree of resiliency. The size or thickness of the wire used may be relatively small or substantially the same as employed in comparatively short barpins. While I prefer to make the pintongue from a single piece of wire, it may be produced from two or more shorter pieces of wire, soldered together to form an integral or one-piece pin-tongue. The normal form of the article A may be substantially as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, wherein the pin-stem a and arm a are shown as diverging from each other from the pivot end the inherent resiliency of the wire causing the bridge or clamping member a and memfirst positioned between the laterally sepa rated ears 6 of the bar B, followed by indenting and pressing the center portion of the ears toward each other to partly inclose the corresponding portion of the said eye part, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5, thus producing the joint on which the pin tongue swings. In clasping or looking the pointed pin-stem a the pin-tongue is swung inward or downward on its axis or pivot, thereby first causing the arm part a to engage with and be arrested by the adjacent side or surfaceof the bar member B; a further or continued movement of the springresisted member a of the pin-tongue serves to clasp it under the catch Z) and at the same time seat-s it in the recess a of the bridge or supporting member a as indicated in Fig. 1.

The movement of the pin tongue to closed position has brought the pin arm a at its outer end into engagement with the inner face of the bar B and the shoulder a '(see Fig. 4) of the bridge on to the flanges a of the bar, thus providing a support for the pin tongue at each sidethereof.

In Figs. 7 and 8, I show a modified form of pin tongue A Fig. 8 showing the pin tongue applied to an ordinary flat bar pin E the pin stem a being pierced through a fabric'-f and hooked in the usual catch b. The drawing represents the fabric as being firmly held or clasped between the ad jacent sides of the pin stem. a and the centrallydisposed bridge -a Since with a bar pin B of the form shown in Fig. 8, no flanges are provided to act as supports for the bridge at opposite sides of the pin stem, the bridge has the free leg a. thereof extended inwardly toward the bar pin B so that the free end thereof is on substantially the same plane as the base of the other leg of the bridge, the two legs of the bridge thus forming a support for each end of the bridge, and supporting the pin stem at opposite sides thereof.

By means of my invention it is obvious that the bar-pin or other analogous article of jewelry provided with the improved pintongue cannot be readily moved endwise in either direction from the central or adjusted position without first unclasping the memher a from the catch. When thus released the tension upon the pin-stem causes it to spring away from the bridge or support a to its limit, thereby automatically separating them and permitting the pin to be easily and quickly withdrawn from the fabric. When the pin-tongue is in the normally open or unclasped position shown in Fig. 2, the pin-stem a maybe readily inserted into the fabric, followed by moving the pin endwise until it is centralized or properlypositioned, at which instant the member a is sprung into the catch Z), thereby firmly clamping the fabric between the said parts a and a and thus at the same time positively preventing the pin from moving bodily in a longitudinal direction in the fabric until it is again unclasped.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent 1. In a pin fastener for bar pins and the like, the combination with the bar, of a pin tongue and pin arm formed integral with each other with a pivot eye between them, said arm and tongue extending in the same general direction from said intermediate pivot eye with the pin arm approximating half the length of the pin tongue, the free 7 end of the pin arm being bent toward and then laterally of the pin tongue to lie on both sides of and form a bridge for the pin tongue, said bridge adapted to be supported at spaced apart points by the bar in a plane at substantially right angles to the direction of length of the bar, said tongue and arm adapted to move as a unit about the bar pivot when the tension provided by the closing of the pin has been released.

2. A pin fastening for bar pins and the like comprising in combination with a bar having inwardly turned flanges on 1ts 1n- .ner face, an integrally-formed pin tongue bend resting on the flanges of the bar and forming a bridge to be engaged by the pin tongue when the latter is closed.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR W. HUTOHINS. Witnesses:

CALVIN H. Brown, GEO. H. REMINGTON.

Copies oithis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

